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How many MS13 members has ICE arrested? (Original Post) angstlessk Aug 2019 OP
Hey, that's a great question ! I bet none. donkeypoofed Aug 2019 #1
K&R UTUSN Aug 2019 #2
Are you kidding? Those guys shoot back!! DFW Aug 2019 #3
Dr. Evil knows. TheBlackAdder Aug 2019 #4

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3. Are you kidding? Those guys shoot back!!
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 11:29 PM
Aug 2019

Last edited Sat Aug 10, 2019, 08:56 AM - Edit history (1)

Look at Republican foreign policy since Reagan: who do they attack/invade? Only countries they are sure won't shoot back. Reagan invaded the Caribbean Island of Grenada. The city of Montpelier, Vermont would have been a riskier foe. Bush I invaded Panama (though after liberating Kuwait, he wisely stopped at the Iraq border). Bush II only invaded Iraq because Cheney and Rumsfeld talked him (and themselves, it seems) into believing it would be a cakewalk ("maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months" ). Oops. But Iraq was not a change in policy, just a major miscalculation. And in Afghanistan, they figured they only needed to wipe the place clean of a "few towelheads." Again, oops.

Your husband is spot on. ICE is terrified of MS13, and well they should be. Those are brutal, professional criminal fighters, battle hardened by fighting with rival gangs. Republicans do not deliberately pick fights with enemies they KNOW will shoot back. They want heroes and televised medal-awarding ceremonies, not body bags with their voters' children in them.

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